--- title: Changing an animal by choosing which ones have babies is called bree… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed · tree and pragmatics description: Changing an animal by choosing which ones have babies is called breeding, and it shows how much living things can change over many generations. Who acts: ones, it, living things. A sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/) / 7 # Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 7 Changing an animal by choosing which ones have babies is called breeding, and it shows how much living things can change over many generations. **Who acts:** ones, it, living things · **What happens:** change, choose, have, call, show · **To what, where:** animal, babies, breeding, many generations · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ones, it, living things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:7 # text = Changing an animal by choosing which ones have babies is called breeding, and it shows how much living things can change over many generations. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 choosing choose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel 7 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 breeding breeding NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 18 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | | a animal | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | | 2 | **choose** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | which ones | babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 4 | **call** | present · passive | | breeding | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 5 | **show** | present | it | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **change** | can | living things | | | | over many generations | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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